Latest Genetic Study Says African Americans Are 22 Percent White

*The latest study on the genetic ancestry of American Blacks is entitled “Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans.”

Published in the journal Genome Biology, the study does not offer much in the way of new information but its facts are still interesting.

For example, the study says the majority of American Blacks derive their ancestry from just 500,000 to 600,000 of the millions of Africans who were forcibly brought to North America as slaves during the Middle passage.

The African ancestry of American Blacks comes primarily from six tribal or ethnic groups:

Meanwhile, the genetic ancestry of the typical African American is 22 percent European with around 10 percent of U.S. Blacks being of more than 50 percent European ancestry. (source: Taylor Media Services)

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That’s bullshit, not my family. We are people from the sea islands, Geechee Gullah, and we still practice our West African traditions. I’m African Black, where the I come from and proud of it. Don’t start no shit with me today, EUR!! 😎

“Meanwhile, the genetic ancestry of the TYPICAL African American” – it does not say ALL blacks have some cream in their coffee cups…but I will say this – whites were in those islands, too. Africans were brought there by somebody and they weren’t there to sunbathe on the beaches. You really don’t know. You cannot really know unless you were in those slave quarters with them when Massa (tragically) came in for some fun. Unless your people/ancestors are the color of a cast iron skillet, and even if they are, you still may have some European content in your blood.

Slightly off-topic, but note those small numbers … 500,000 to 600,000 … really just a handful. Most of the African slaves (at least 12,000,000 or more) were dropped off in South America. Massa hit the lotto in North America with the beginning of the “United States of America,” and the slaves here benefitted from it and SURVIVED as a subculture, despite their trials. We are the beneficiaries and should ALWAYS carry ourselves as a PROUD people and a credit to our ancestors …

GTFOOH! So now, we’re part yt? Not in my immediate family. I know for a fact that my father was Nigerian and my mother was half Black and half Cherokee. MOTHER, the Gullahs are in South Carolina, the shithole in which I was born, where a small community of Cherokees lived and still lives. The Gullahs are from the Islands with their West Indian culture, beautiful sing-song speech and food still intact today! These motherfukkers are so desperate to “up” their numbers until not only are they putting caucasian on the licenses of Mexicans in Georgia (and probably other places, too), they are actually trying to put that curse on us. And where did they find this junk science? Believe me, if yt folks are now trying to claim us as part of them, there is something in it for them, at least they think so!

First thing first! What is the point of this article? Does the author attempt to “ease” racial tensions by telling Blacks that “we are more alike than different”? If so, save the rhetoric for your white friends at the golf course! The fact that BLACKS have 22% of so-called white blood is nothing new. As a matter of fact, I would say that whites are 78% deficient in melanin. Melanin is the NATURAL STATE of human beings. Also, it is apparent that many African people are infected with African inferiority complexes and European supremacy. If Africans are the original peoples of Earth, and human species are Melanated people, then it would be reasonable to assume then that being lighter is a deficiency, yes?

It is only the white supremacy that encourages people of darker hue to pursue any and make every attempt to associate themselves with Caucasians. Truth be told, Caucasians are NOT 100% modern human. If you go here (http://www.physorg.com/search/?search=neanderthal), you will see that there are a large percentage of Caucasians and Asians that are interbred with Neanderthals! Finally, being Black is a state of mind! No skin color can EVER bond African people in unity if we are continuously infecting ourselves with the disease of white supremacy and this article is INFECTED with such disease!

read the book time on the cross it dismiss many of the myths .First the majority of white men in the south didn’t own slaves .Many were unfaithful or had mistress and illicit sex was common but guess what there were no black women chosen by white men .because they preferred white women not black and the ones they choose were light skinned if they did.

no we need for the white community to stop acting the way they do, stop white supremacy, Blacks do not control ANYTHING in America,WHITES control everything of any significance .
so stop saying it is a BIPARTISAN issue!!

Can I ask a dumb question, being a well intentioned, but highly ignorant white woman. How, if at all does this issue affect yours and also political opinion on the issue of abortion? Some pro-life groups claim pro-choice seeks out to “murder” unborn black babies. Pro-choice suspects pro-life is ‘using the race card.’ I wonder if SOME (certainly not all, but some)of the southern anti-choice rhetoric is a guilt response to knowing that a large percent of its African American population descend from the raped slaves of white men. It doesn’t really seem as though black americans need to embrace their white ancestors and who could blame them for that? Collectively, we have not embraced you in real time. But still I wonder if the buff and blustering over ‘rape culture’ is a greatly removed connection to this unacknowleged truth. Feel free to educate me. Thank you.

Not only are a great number of African with European ancestors but there are a lot of Native Americans with European ancestors also, remember Natives were enslaved and raped also, and do not forget the Irish that were forced to mate with Black slaves.

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